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1  Therefore it would be better for Jurgis to stay in hiding and never be seen in public with his pal.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
2  There had come a time when he had to set his own type, but he had held on and won out, and now his publication was an institution.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
3  All day he sat at a machine turning bolts; and then in the evening he went to the public school to study English and learn to read.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
4  It was the same in all the packing house cities; and suddenly the newspapers and public woke up to face the gruesome spectacle of a meat famine.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
5  What they wanted from a hog was all the profits that could be got out of him; and that was what they wanted from the workingman, and also that was what they wanted from the public.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
6  They hired thirty young girls in Cincinnati to "pack fruit," and when they arrived put them at work canning corned beef, and put cots for them to sleep in a public hallway, through which the men passed.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
7  About twelve years previously a Colorado real-estate speculator had made up his mind that it was wrong to gamble in the necessities of life of human beings: and so he had retired and begun the publication of a Socialist weekly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
8  Beneath the hundred thousand women of the elite are a million middle-class women, miserable because they are not of the elite, and trying to appear of it in public; and beneath them, in turn, are five million farmers' wives reading 'fashion papers' and trimming bonnets, and shop-girls and serving-maids selling themselves into brothels for cheap jewelry and imitation seal-skin robes.'
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31